Type 1 diabetes is when the pancreas, which creates insulin, stops working. Type 2 diabetes means your cells has begun to resist insulin and has stopped utilizing insulin created. Insulin is a hormone which lets sugar from your blood into the parts of your body which require it. When this vital hormone is missing or your cells cannot absorb insulin properly, sugar builds up in your blood, which causes you to get ill.
Some people (type 1) require an injection of insulin to control the sugar, while others need a tablet -- or just diet and exercise (type 2). Everyone with diabetes needs to have a healthy diet - and this is also what helps goes a long way to help prevent the occurrence of Type 2 diabetes.
Get at least 30 minutes of exercise nearly every day. For example walking around your neighborhood each day is a good idea. The key is to use large muscle groups. You could also try going to the gym a couple of times a week.
Eat a balanced diet. Eat a little from each food group, and not too much of the bad stuff - like sugar, salt and fat.
- Watch the amount of carbohydrates you eat. Your doctor or dietitian can give you a diet plan with the amount of carbohydrate, protein and fat you need each day. Follow their advice, and avoid fad diets which will only cause more trouble.
- Eat Slowly to avoid overeating. It takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to send a signal to your brain that you are full. In that lag, you may eat too much, far more than you need.
. Water is better than any other drink. Water also fills you up so your desire to eat decreases.
Maintain a healthy weight by eating healthful foods and avoiding junk food. Eating slowly helps prevent overeating by getting you satisfied with less food. Our sensor in the brain (In the hypothalamus) needs about 20 minutes to get the satiety signal; we can get full, even bloated and continue eating because we still feel hungry. Slow down.
Do not smoke, drink alcohol or take habit forming drugs (tobacco and alcohol are legal drugs).
Never get pressured into eating anything or getting off your regime or routine and never get stressed by your program to live with diabetes. There are only a few times you can get allow yourself to be stressed.
- Sleep (on an almost empty stomach!) -- get 6, preferably 7 or more hours of sleep for recovery time for the nerves and all other systems to settle and rest. This will lower your diabetes problems, i.e.: blood sugar levels [and improve your blood pressure].
- If you need help sleeping, (1) try the one antihistamine to cause drowsiness that does not cause higher blood pressure (HBP), as cheap as $4 for 100 (as Equate brand 'Chlortabs'): it is chlorpheniramine maleate -- also sold as 'Chlortrimeton' and as 'Corcidin-HBP'. (Do not use any sugary antihistamine syrups.) (2) Taking Valerian as a highly relaxant herb -- helps with sleep and is especially known to reduce body aches and pains. If you wake up too early, drink water and take another dose of both, if four hours or more have passed since the first dose. (3) Take calcium with magnesium and vitamin D3 and B-vitamins, omega3, omega3-6-9 which all work together, causing much improved relaxation and many other healthful benefits! (4) A "small serving of protein food" helps sleep -- such as plain turkey or chicken, and do eat almonds (have more fiber!), walnuts, pecans, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, pistachios, red peanuts with skins-on (also, those kinds of seeds and all nuts have essential oils!).
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